Tom Wolfe and Michael Denton emphasize speech as a unique gift underlining the exceptional status of homo sapiens in nature. It’s also an endowment that is inexplicable on Darwinian evolutionary terms. An embellishment of our ability to speak is the gift of storytelling: not merely recounting stories but drawing them from your own head. Inventing fiction, writing a novel, is truly creation ex nihilo. And where is the gene for that?

In a new ID the Future episode, Sarah Chaffee chats with novelist and ID advocate Bruce Buff, author of The Soul of the Matter.

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I reviewed the book here at Evolution News. Publishers Weekly praises its “thrilling plot filled with deception and international intrigue…This book will leave readers to ponder big questions of existence.”

Mr. Buff reflects on his own creative process as a storyteller, merging his impressive research about intelligent design with a tense and intriguing storyline that, among other highlights, transports his protagonists to Discovery Institute’s posh (ha ha: not) offices in Seattle’s Pioneer Square.

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